Monthly Archives: July 2014

Rule 1 of maintaining a lively community in an online shooter: don’t split the playerbase. After releasing three paid map packs for Titanfall, Respawn changed tack, abruptly making all its DLC free. It was partly to mark Titanfall’s one-year anniversary,

The Friendly Update for Minecraft was announced at Microsoft’s E3 presser, and with it comes a few welcome updates to the Windows 10 Edition of the popular sandbox builder. John Carmack also made an appearance John Carmack, entering only as

A sequel to Ubisoft Reflections physics-heavy platformer Grow Home was announced during the Ubisoft E3 presser. It’s called Grow Up, and stars the same clumsy robot from before. You’re headed to the moon this time around, which means you’ll need

“We gotta earn it,” said Xbox head Phil Spencer, speaking to PC Gamer during E3 on Tuesday about Microsoft’s push to publish games on Windows again. “I know our Quantum [Break] launch wasn’t the best launch we had.” It’s a

There’s been a ratcheting of tensions between Riot Games and the League of Legends community recently, which we covered in-depth in this piece on the rise of #LCSForever. In the midst of all that, a related controversy has arisen: HTC

After running in Blizzard’s public test realm for a few weeks, Overwatch version 1.3 went live earlier today on PC. The patch is headlined by an overhaul to how Competitive Play works, including the elimination of sudden death, which will

Mother Russia Bleeds is an ultra-violent, Double Dragon-flavored side-scrolling beat-em-up about a gang of street fighters who escape prison and kick ass across an alt-history Soviet Union in order to bring down a powerful criminal cartel that’s got the whole

I’d missed the news that acclaimed special effects artist Tom Savini was doing work for the new Friday the 13th game, and even now I’m struggling to fathom it, as he’s most famous for creating realistic death effects and gore,

$70. That’s how much Logitech is betting gamers will be willing to spend on a headset, mouse, or keyboard if they don’t already own a dedicated piece of gaming gear. As long as I’ve been following Logitech’s gaming brand, it’s